Rejoicing in his heritage.

Canto XLVI. Diti's Hope.

But Diti, when her sons were slain,

Wild with a childless mother's pain,

To Kaśyap spake, Marícha's son,

Her husband: “O thou glorious one!

Dead are the children, mine no more,

The mighty sons to thee I bore.

Long fervour's meed, I crave a boy